BASKETBALL
Red Claws’ Clarke named to all-league second team
Maine Red Claws forward Coty Clarke was named to the All-NBA D-League second team on Friday.
Clarke, who finished the season with the Boston Celtics, averaged 16.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 44 games with the Red Claws.
Clarke is the seventh player in Red Claws history to earn All-NBA D-League honors.
GOLF
PGA: Jamie Lovemark and Jhonattan Vegas shared the Zurich Classic lead at 11 under Friday when second-round play in Avondale, Louisiana, was suspended because of darkness.
Lovemark had a 27-hole day at hot and humid TPC Louisiana, completing a 5-under 67 in the first round and adding a 66 in the second. The event was delayed by rain Thursday.
Vegas shot 64-69. He played 31 holes.
Top-ranked Jason Day was 5 under with eight holes left.
LPGA: Gerina Piller made herself at home in the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, shooting a 6-under 65 to take the lead in the suspended second round in Irving.
Piller birdied three of the final five holes in her bogey-free round to reach 10-under 132.
Play was suspended because of rain just after 4 p.m.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Felipe Aguilar of Chile shot a 7-under 65 in the second round of the China Open at Beijing to take a one-stroke lead before play was suspended because of a thunderstorm.
Aguilar fired seven birdies to be 11 under overall, one stroke ahead of Alex Noren and Bernd Wiesberger.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Promoters of a race planned for Boston’s Seaport district in September have pulled out, according to a Boston Globe report, calling the relationship with the city “untenable.”
The group will instead try to hold a Labor Day weekend race in another city in the Northeast.
TENNIS
PRAGUE OPEN: Second-seeded Lucie Safarova rallied past defending champion Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 7-6 (4) to set up a final with fourth-seeded Sam Stosur, who advanced on a walkover after top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova could not play because of abdominal muscle problem.
BMW OPEN: Eighth-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany upset top seed David Goffin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals at Munich.
The 19-year-old Zverev will face Dominic Thiem of Austria. Fourth-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber will play Italian fifth-seed Fabio Fognini in the other semifinal.
ISTANBUL OPEN: Second-seeded Grigor Dimitrov rebounded to defeat sixth-seeded Jiri Vesely 7-6 (1), 6-1 and advance to the semifinals, where he’ll face third-seeded Ivo Karlovic, who fired 20 aces to beat fifth seed Marcel Granollers 7-6 (2), 6-7 (5), 6-4.
GRAND PRIX SAR: Top-seeded Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland beat fifth-seeded Timea Babos of Hungary 6-4, 7-5 to reach the final in Morocco. She will face qualifier Marina Erakovic of New Zealand.
MADRID OPEN: Serena Williams will miss the event that starts this weekend because of a fever that has left her feeling “less than 100 percent.”
SOCCER
FIFA: Michel Platini will learn by May 9 if he has overturned a six-year ban from FIFA.
The UEFA president attended an eight-hour closed-door hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday.
It appears unlikely there will be a verdict in time for Tuesday when UEFA gathers for its annual congress.
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